The janitor cleaning up as a pianist

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Discovered playing Chopin after his shift at Glasgow University, Aleksander Kudajczyk is now an international superstar

Aleksander Kudajczyk is just back from a tour of Australia and Indonesia where
he played his first series of back-to-back piano concerts. “It was good but
it was very tiring,” he says. “I spent a lot of time on planes, in trains
and in hotel rooms. I didn’t really get much time to sightsee.”

The whirlwind life of a professional musician is still new to Kudajczyk. Three
years ago, he was working as a cleaner at Glasgow University before he was
discovered, Hollywood-style, by a secretary who logged on a university
webcam and heard him playing Chopin on the chapel’s